Reason magazine ferreted out a report on ObamaCare by the Congressional Research Service which has not gotten much attention, despite its serious implications.
The long report tried to address the question of just how many new commissions, boards and other bureaucratic bodies would be created by ObamaCare. As it turns out, the answer to that question is not only unknown, but, according to the report, is “unknowable.”
“The precise number of new entities that will be created pursuant to [ObamaCare] is currently unknowable,” the report stated. The law explicitly requires various leaders and departments – from the president on down – to create a range of government bodies. But lots of other entities could be created, too, depending on multiple factors.
Worse still, the report stated, “It is unclear how the Government Accountability Office (GAO) will be able to independently audit” some of the new government bureaucracies. And most alarmingly, “In many cases, it is currently impossible to know how much influence [the new entities] will ultimately have” on implementing the law.
Sadly, we have no reason to believe that there will be any real accountability for ObamaCare’s outrageous spending or for the expanded control over medical care that it will give to the federal government.
And even now, eight months after Democrats rammed ObamaCare through Congress, there remains extremely high public support for repealing it. In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, almost 60 percent of likely voters polled said they favored repeal. Only 37 percent opposed repeal. Most also said ObamaCare will harm the nation.
That level of opposition is not really surprising, considering the costs and bureaucracy attached to ObamaCare.